Chapter 00 — Industry Use Case
Mining & Power. A decarbonised second life for stranded carbon.
Washery rejects, coal fines and low-rank lignite are stranded at the mine mouth — off-spec for combustion and without a compliant outlet. Plasma gasification extracts hydrogen from that carbon without a flame, locking the mineral fraction into inert slag and giving legacy coal assets a decarbonisation-aligned future.
Mine-mouth
Brownfield siting
Vitrified
Ash → inert slag
No flame
Non-combustion route
5–100
TPD modular chassis
Reject-coal performance is modeled from feedstock properties; plasma-trial validation is in progress.
The Challenge Today
- Reject and low-rank coal has no saleable outlet and accumulates on site.
- Combustion of low-grade coal is emissions-heavy and increasingly restricted.
- Thermal-power and mining assets face decarbonisation and stranding risk.
- Fly-ash and mineral-waste handling is a growing environmental liability.
How Ardana Fits
- Monetises otherwise-stranded, unsaleable carbon.
- Non-combustion route avoids the fly-ash and NOx profile of burning coal.
- Mineral matter is vitrified into inert slag, not dispersed.
- Brownfield, mine-mouth siting reuses existing handling infrastructure.
Chapter 01 — Relevant Feedstocks